BRINKLEY, Captain Francis.Oriental series. Japan and China. It's history, arts and literature.Boston & Tokyo, J.B. Millet Company, 1902. 12 volumes. 8vo. With a handcoloured frontispiece on silk in each volume, numerous plates, hand-coloured reproductions of the famous woodcuts by Hokusai and 2 large coloured, lithographed folding maps. Contemporary blue half morocco, gold-tooled spines. Wenckstern II, p. 2; cf. Cordier, Japonica, col. 636. One of the hundred copies of the so called "Okuma edition" of Captain Francis Brinkley's work on Japan and China, published in 1901-1902. Brinkley (1841-1912) was editor of The Japan mail and resided in Japan for over 40 years during the Meiji era (1868-1912), an era characterized by Japan's opening to Western ideas and technology. He encountered the changes during this period and wrote numerous books about Japanese history and culture relating to the Japan of his day, as well as an English-Japanese dictionary. Whilst visiting Nagasaki, he saw a samurai fight, and was so impressed by the warrior's conduct that he decided to settle permanently in Japan. Eight of the twelve volumes deal with Japan, the other four volumes are devoted China. The text is illustrated with numerous plates, displaying photographs of architecture, art, birds, costumes and much more.A very good copy, wholly untrimmed and some quires unopened. Binding also very good, spines only slightly discoloured.

Bell, James Madison, 1826-1902The Poetical Works of James Madison Bell Press of Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co, Lansing 1901 - 2 portraits (including frontis), index, 208p. plus (1)p. Index. Pebbled dark green cloth. Gilt bells on front cover and backstrip. 20cm. Recased with new endpapers. No Jacket. *Bishop B. W. Arnett provided a Biographical Sketch [at pages 3-14] which is the source of most that is known about this poet from Ohio (with sojourns in Ontario and California) who earned much of his living as a plasterer. This first edition contains 27 poems; five poems were added to a second (and final) edition, also first published in 1901 (although most, if not all, of the copies of the 2nd ed. we've encountered are dated 1904). [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Blandy, John, (editor)The Bakery World London: The Bakery World, 1901. First edition. Quarto, 242 pages. Ads. Illustrated with a series of fourteen, full-page chromos of bread in its various stages, "birth", "immaturity", "vigour", "vigour of youth", "ripeness", "maturity", "overripeness", "decay", and two plates showing maladies and imperfection labeled, "holes". An additional nineteen chromolithographs illustrate bread in its many international forms, "the bakery world") tipped onto printed pages. Additional illustrations in the text. Also included is a two-page set of color samples, indicating the color of different grades of flours, and the qualities of each. A substantial professional, technical journal of the English commercial bread industry. The first and only volume issued. Blandy was the author of The Bakers' Guide and Cooks' Assistant to the Art of Bread-making, etc., a smaller guide to the same subject, which was issued in 1886, as well as, The Baker's Catechism, and Bakery Economics. A full page ad for the author states that he was a "Certified Teacher of Breadmaking, Founder and past principal of the Borough Polytechnic School for Bread and Confectionery Making, Holder of City and London Guild Honors' Diploma for Breadmaking&hellip; Consulting Expert, etc." Some of his consulting activities included flour testing, yeast testing, supplying formulae, examining single loaves, and general consultations. The ads, some printed in rich chromolithographed color, are a fascinating look into various elements of the commercial bread-baking industry in England at the turn of the twentieth century, and include ads for a number of other professional baking periodicals, including, The Practical Confectioner & Baker, The Confectioner's Union, Milling, The British Baker, The Miller, The Baker & Confectioner, and Baker's Helper Chicago. Other ads are for flour millers, suppliers of yeast, wheatmeal, cocoa, eggs, bakery utensils, ovens and machinery. A handsome and expensively produced volume, in near very good condition for a commercial manual. Some edge wear and staining to gilt-titled boards. Hinges restored and quarter-brown calf spine replaced. Plain with no spine label as issued. Rare. [OCLC locates just one copy, at the National Library of Scotland].

Meredith, GeorgeAutograph Letter, signed ("George Meredith"), to George Gissing, thanking him for "the delighful book on The Ionian Sea" Box Hill, Dorking, [Surrey], 1901. Ink on laid paper, watermarked Joynson Superfine, headed Box Hill, Dorking. 4 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Fine. Ink on laid paper, watermarked Joynson Superfine, headed Box Hill, Dorking. 4 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Meredith to Gissing: 'for you to take your place among our best'. Novelist George Meredith (1828-1909) writes his friend George Gissing (1857-1903), acknowledging the latest book, and asking about Gissing's health, reading (in part):"The title of your present abode indicates the open air cure. Let me know, if you can find time, how it affects you, & whether you are strengthened to work, as I trust you are, for a clear way is open to you now, & only the fair state of health is wanted for you to take your place among our best."A touching solicitous letter from the great elder author, himself no stranger to controversy, to the ill-starred but critically acclaimed Gissing. Provenance: Gabrielle Fleury to Robert Le Mallier; Sotheby's (23 Nov. 1971), lot 700 (cited in Gissing Newsletter 8:1, Jan. 1972); Sotheby Parke Bernet (London), 23 July 1979, lot 256, to Al Slotnick

[Bally Shoes]Histoire de Cinquante Ans, 1851-1901, Les Fils de C. F. Bally a Schoenenwerd Schoenenwerd (Switzerland): L'Imprimerie Kreis a Bale, 1901. First edition. Slim quarto [31 cm] Original brown cloth backed thick pictorial cardboard covers. Tan floral endpapers. With three full-page bright color plates of shoe samples, four phototype plates, and numerous black and white photo reproductions and line drawings. Very good. The covers have a general layer of light soiling and staining, the boards are a bit creased, and the underlying boards are exposed at the edges. There are thin cracks in the endpapers along the hinges, however the book is very sturdy. The tissue guards and the phototype plates are mildly foxed, the preliminary and terminal leaves are more heavily foxed, and there is very occasional minor soiling on the pages. A 50-year celebration of the internationally acclaimed shoe company, Bally, with a history, photos, and color plates of their shoes and more.

GIDEON, D. C. (b. 1848).Indian Territory: Descriptive, Biographical, and Genealogical including the landed estates, county seats, etc., etc., with a general history of the territory. New York and Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1901. - 4to., (10 5/8 x 8 3/8 inches). 100 photogravure plates, numerous in-text illustrations. Professionally rebound in full morocco, preserving the cover panels and portion of the original spine, decorated in blind, all edges gilt, the spine in 5 compartments separated by four raised bands, gilt lettered in two (small chip to front cover, rear cover slightly rubbed). Provenance: Ink stamps of "Thos. J. Harrison Private Library, Pryor, Oklahoma" on title page and p. 3. First edition. Attributed to D. C. Gideon, whose autobiography and photograph appear on pp. 312-313. A physician from Illinois, Gideon abandoned his medical practice and eventually immigrated to Indian Territory around 1890, where he again became a doctor, setting aside his intervening career as a journalist. In yet another twist he went back to journalism before stopping that work "in 1900 to accept the position of general and local historian for this history. His work in this line being ended, his time will hereafter be devoted to his ranch and stock in Blue county, Choctaw nation" (p. 313). Although originally married to Sarah Row, he later remarried a Choctaw woman named Nellie J. Landers. This volume is a cornerstone of historical, anthropological, social, and genealogical research for the Indian Territory shortly before it was subsumed in 1907 by Oklahoma statehood. There are numerous biographical entries, and it "has a long section on all the outlaws of the Indian Territory, including the Dalton gang and Cook gang" (Adams). This section of "Territory Outlaws" includes a biography of Bass Reeves (1824-1910), the first African American to be commissioned U.S. deputy marshal west of the Mississippi River. Born to slave parents in Paris, Texas, Reeves's career exemplifies the role that African Americans played in westward expansion, which is often overlooked. Reeves's own account of his capture and shooting of rancher Jim Webb in 1895 appears on pp. 115-118. The author's stance on Native Americans may be inferred by the statement in the section entitled "Indians Becoming Extinct": "Never in the history of the world has the extermination of a people been so complete as that of the American Indian during the past two hundred years. At first they were estimated at several millions; now only a few thousand are left, and they are being so systematically reduced by the white man's vices that another century will mark the last of their race" (pp. 7-8). Though this book records (and mourns) a fading way of life, it also clearly anticipates a growing region on the cusp of statehood. Adams, Guns 1107. For more information about this book, or a warm welcome to see it and other books in our library at 72nd Street, NYC, please contact Megan Scauri, M.A., M.L.S., in the Rare Book Department. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

(Douglas, Norman)Unprofessional Tales; by Normyx London: T. FIsher Unwin, 1901. First edition. Cloth. Very slight lean, traces of foxing, small tear at front hinge, a couple of barely detectable marks to pictorial front cover;still a very good, birght copy, unworn with just a typical bit of darkening to the spine.. 8vo, [248]pp; original pictorial white cloth lettered in gilt. Douglas's pseudonymous first regularly published book, preceded by a small number of scholarly offprints. One of only 750 copies printed, most of which were unsold and many of which are thought to have been pulped.

De Worde,WynkenThe History of Helyas Knight of the Swan. Translated by Robert Copland from the French version New York: The Grolier Club, 1901 Limited edition of three hundred and twenty-five copies, three of which are on vellum. Full pigskin branded with the device of Wynken de Worde and mounted with brass clasps. Three paneled spine with tooled floral motifs Binding extremities lightly rubbed, pages untrimmed. Small quarto. Engraved illustrations (one is in black and red) and initial letters are facsimiles of the originals on wood and the text is printed from type made especially for this purpose by Sir Charles Reed's Sons in London, modeled upon the original fonts of Wynkin7. Title page printed in black and red. The book is printed on Whatman paper with ample margins of the same size (as can be estimated) as that of the original. Prospectus included; it is worth noting that prospectus states the book came with a leather slipcase, though this copy, like most others, does not have one. A remarkably fine copy. The History of the Knight of the Swan is a medieval tale about a mysterious rescuer who comes in a swan-drawn boat to defend a damsel, his only condition being that he must never be asked his name. The earliest versions do not provide specific identity to this knight, but the Old French Crusade cycle of chansons de geste adopted it to make the Swan Knight (Le Chevalier au Cigne, first version around 1192) the legendary ancestor of Godfrey of Bouillon.

(Boer War) Carter, Sergeant D.A.20 Letters reporting events at Ladysmith, the Transvaal, Bloemfontein and elsewhere VP including Ladysmith, Geluk Farm, Vluchfontein et al., 1901. Nine ALS, three TLS, eight carbons. 64 pp in total. Folio & 4to. Very good, some tiny chips to carbons and one two spots of minor dampstaining not affecting legibility. Nine ALS, three TLS, eight carbons. 64 pp in total. Folio & 4to. FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH. A fine group of letters by an English intelligence officer steadily rising through the ranks. In 1899 he is "sleep[ing] in the open air, only one blanket & one waterproof sheet." Within a year he was Lord Roberts' private clerk and in December 1900 he is stationed at the Commander-in-Chief's Office (Kitchener's) doing "confidential military work for the Military Secretary to Lord Kitchener." Although part of the intelligence service, Carter saw more than his share of fighting. He describes the march to Ladysmith, and the action at Elands Laagte Station, noting "a bullet going through the top of my helmet and cutting off some of my hair but without even scratching the skin."The next four letters were written from Ladysmith and provide a full account of the siege. "The Boers had big siege guns mounted on the hills around Ladysmith which quite outclassed our light field guns ... [They'd] completely invested Ladysmith & cut the telegraph lines & pulled up the Railway ... Then began the long dreary siege..." Carter reports using "a lot of pigeons" and the cost of Kaffir and Zulu runners, to get letters out of Ladysmith and at least one of his letters (not here) was published in the Hamilton Spectator.The siege is depicted much like a holiday camp, citing football matches, swimming races, water polo, cricket. "We got so indifferent to the Boer 'snipers' that you would see most of our chaps having an afternoon siesta behind their trenches while bullets would be chipping the stones around them. We also used to organise pools, when we could see some of the Boers, and have a long range shooting match, the man who bowled the first Boer over taking the pool." Yet there is also much on troops movements, information on the Boers, the conditions of Ladysmith, accounts of engaging the enemy, and reflections on the experience of combat: "the actual fighting is all right as the excitement deadens your faculties, but after a battle when ... you see your poor companions who a few hours before were joking with you, lying dead or else writhing in the agonies of pain caused by frightful wounds, then you feel your courage leaving you and your nerves getting like wax." The remaining correspondence includes three letters as Carter's regiment treks across the Transvaal through August and September 1900. These too are full of detail of life in the field, bivouacking scouting enemy positions and action: "There was a grand opportunity for our Field Artillery. They simply pumped shrapnel into them, the Artillery Officers going mad at the sight, and shrieking to the gunners 'fire! fire! hurry up you b----- fools, you never had such a chance, fire!' ... You could see at every discharge of the guns, the Boers falling, and at the same time our splendid Infantry running for all they were worth trying to get at them with the bayonet ... [I]t is very seldom the Boers leave any wounded or dead behind them and it proves how hard we pressed them ... It was like a shambles ... one, two or more bodies, horribly mutilated by the effects of the Lyddite."The final group commences with Carter being stationed at the Commander-in-Chief's office and he wastes no opportunity to use the special mail service for his own correspondence. He describes Kitchener at work and provides insight to life in the office. Yet beneath this is a yearning for the war to end and a frustration that it can't be done in one swift battle: "We cannot get a good fight out of the beggars they simply have a few shots at us and as soon as we get near enough to do some damage, off they go helter-skelter." This group were all addressed to Carter's long time friend we know only by the name of Jose. Given the warmth and detail included here, it's possible that he was using these letters as a substitute for a diary. Carter served with some distinction in 1st Manchester Regiment and was mentioned in the despatches.

Frances Hodgson Burnett].Little Lord Fauntleroy]. Volf Moskva 1901 - Octavo. X, incl. half-title, full-page frontispiece and title page, 219 pp., incl. some full-page illustrations, table of content and one leaf of ads; pencil note to verso of half-title. Publisher's red cloth heavily decorated in gilt and black, all edges gilt; upper fly-leaf defective. Lovely Russian edition of this celebrated children's book that tells a story of a little American boy, who discovers to be a heir to an English aristocratic title and a fortune. The striking publisher's binding here in an unusually bright condition. Little Lord Fauntleroy was the first children's novel of English playwright and author Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924). It was first published in book format in original English in 1886 following the serialisation in St. Nicholas magazine. Its popularity was enormous. Polly Horvath, an American-Canadian author of novels for children, wrote that Little Lord Fauntleroy "was the Harry Potter of his time and Frances Hodgson Burnett was as celebrated for creating him as J.K. Rowling is for Potter." There is little doubt that in Russia the novel was also received with great enthusiasm, as before 1918 it underwent at least 13 editions. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

London, JackThe Sea Gangsters: A Modern Tale Of Love, Mutiny And Fate, Aboard The Good Ship Elsinore [Signed Association Copy] [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] [With Numerous Illustrations Not Contained in the Book] San Francisco: Frederick Marriott [Overland Monthly], 1901. First Appearance. Hardcover. Fine. A Fine copy of the SCARCE FIRST APPEARANCE of Jack London's novel "The Sea Gangsters" published in ten installments of Hearst's Magazine from November, 1913 through August, 1914 [bound in blue cloth without the wrappers], being THE COPY OF JACK LONDON'S DAUGHTER BECKY LONDON, SIGNED AND DATED BY HER ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER as follows: "Becky London / August 16 - 1986" -- Becky London elected to have bound only those pages of the magazine containing her father's novel. The entire novel was thereafter published under the title "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" (The Macmillan Company, [September] 1914). This true First publication of the novel contains numerous illustrations not contained in the first book edition -- which book edition contains a frontispiece but no other illustrations. A Fine copy of the TRUE FIRST PUBLICATION of this Jack London novel with an excellent Provenance, having been THE COPY OF JACK LONDON'S DAUGHTER BECKY LONDON and SIGNED AND DATED BY BECKY LONDON. QUITE SCARCE INDEED.

Underwood & Underwood[Photos] Stereo views of Mexico -- complete set. New York, etc.: Underwood & Underwood, 1901. One hundred stereo views, 8.75 x 17.75 cm. Views include Mexico City, Guadalajara, Zacatecas, Monterey, Guanajuato, Merida, Aguas Calientes, San Luis Potosi, Chihuahua, Uxmal, etc. Enclosed in the original box -- a clam-shell case in the shape of books -- which has preserved the photos in remarkable condition. Included is the original, functioning stereoscope. This is the complete set of photos as published by Underwood, numbered. Complete sets are hard to come by: auction records show 1 at auction; OCLC doesn't list any. Very good condition.

RIIS, JACOB A.The Making of an American New York: Macmillan, 1901 - First Edition. Original cloth; front hinge broken; margins of first few leaves edgeworn; good to very good. The dedication copy; inscribed to his wife (the Danish endearment "Lammet" on the printed dedication) on the front free endpaper, "Elisabeth D. Riis/ To my sweet-heart of these many years, the wife of my heart from her husband, Jacob A. Riis/ Richmond Hill/ Nov. 23 1901." Journalist, reformer, friend of Theodore Roosevelt, the author is best-known as the author of How The Other Half Lives. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

BOSWELL, JAMES.The Life of Samuel Johnson. Edited by Arnold Glover of the Inner Temple, with an introduction by Austin Dobson. 3 volumes. J.M. Dent, London 1901. 3 engraved frontispieces in colour, xxxvii,(3),458, viii,464, viii,466 pp., more than 100 illustrations by Herbert Railton, with 27 photogravure portraits in colour, one of 150 numbered copies on large paper, bound uncut in nice ni.. 16022443

"DEASY, H. H. P., Capt."In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan being the record of three years' exploration London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1901. "First edition, ""second impression,"" 8vo, pp. [iii]-xvi, 420; frontis portrait, folding map printed in color (one short tear repaired on verso), 7 plates, and a number of illustrations from photographs in the text; covers a bit soiled and spotted, spine darkened, else very good in original pictorial cream cloth. The author, late of the 16th Queen's Lancers, was winner of the Royal Geographic Society's gold medal. The map, published by the RGS, is based on Deasy's excellent surveys. "

Church, Percy W.Chinese Turkestan with Caravan and Rifle.: London: Rivingtons 1901 - A sportsman's account of his journey 'into Central Asia to try and shoot the Altai wapiti, the great stag of the Tian Shan'. Cordier BS 2863; Morrison I p. 171 A very good copy in original cloth. Small owners name card pasted to front end-paper and his rubber stamp on rear end-paper. Relevant leaf of ephemera tipped in. First edition pp.xi, [i], 207; folding map, 16 plates.

Omar KHAYYAMTHE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM Ballantyne Press 1901 - printed by the Ballantyne press, London, sold by Hacon and Ricketts, London, 1901.Decorations by Charles Ricketts, Frontis designed and engraved by him. cloth spine (slightly scuffed) and blue boards. Apart from a tiny tear in lower edge of one page this is in very good+ condition, some pages uncut, clean bright and secure. A beautiful production, one of 310 copies, on handmade paper. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Omar KhayyamRUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM The Philosopher Press, Wausau, WI 1901 - Copy Number 1 of 100, this made for presentation (see note). Folio. Unpaged. half-title, limitation statement, title, 22 pages of text each with elaborate Persian style frames. Bound French-style with deckle edges. Bound in quarter tan calf over boards with title in gilt on both covers. Title reads: "The Second Version of the Translations by Edward Fitzgerald from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam printed by Van Vechten & Ellis and published by them at the Philosopher Press which is at the Sign of the Green Pine Tree in Wausau Wisconsin".Final sentence of the colophon reads" This copy numbered one made for Walter Alexander for presentation to the Honorable John C. Spooner of Wisconsin."With the bookplate of of Williamson with the legend "Docilitas Sapientiae".Potter 199. Minor abrasion to spine extremes and to upper and lower board edges, all else quite fine and bright. In original heavily chipped plain dust jacket Copy Number 1 of 100, this made for presentation (see note). [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Jules VERNEles histoires de jean-marie cabidoulin Edition illustrated by Georges Roux, many engravings and 6 large chromolithographies.Cartonnage editor said "the steamer" the golden badge. Very nice top plate but gold is tarnished macaron (golds employees at that time by the publisher are of lesser quality). Coins barely rubbed. ; a slightly bent. The gold back, for the same reason, slightly past. soft headdresses. second board well with 2 small spots. Copy slightly warped. A few pale foxing in the margins early in the book, but all costs. Hetzel Paris 1901 Grd. in-8 (18x27cm) 218pp. relié

Keene, H.G.The great anarchy, or darkness before dawn.: Sketches of military adventure in Hindustan during the period immediately preceding British occupation. With a preface by the Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Temple. London and Calcutta Thacker, Spink & Co. 1901 - This work on Lally, De Boigne, George Thomas, Perron, James Skinner, Colonel Gardner, & others was later re-issued as Hindustan under Free Lances. COPAC shows BL and Oxford only. Bound in early twentieth century red half morocco, a little rubbed, with slightly worn original wrappers bound in. Spine beginning to crack on hinge. With presentation inscription from U. Ch. Ferrar to H.C. Irwin, both, like the author, retired members of the Bengal Civil Service. And the armorial bookplate of H.C. Irwin, author of "The Garden of India".